Willis Marks

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Willis Marks (August 20, 1865, Rochester, Minnesota, United States – December 6, 1952, Los Angeles, California) was an American silent film actor.

Biography[]

Marks made his professional stage debut in 1888 and for nine years was a member of West Coast entrepreneur Oliver Morosco's stock company. The actor and director Marshall Neilan brought Marks to Hollywood in 1915, where he spent the next twenty years playing older gentlemen in many films, including The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), in which he played William Seward. Marks' career declined after the emergence of sound movies.

Marks' papers are housed at the University of Denver.

Partial filmography[]

• Secret Love (1916)
• Her Bitter Cup (1916)
• The Mysterious Mrs. M (1917)
• The Clock (1917)
• The Vanity Pool (1918)
• The Flash of Fate (1918)
• You Never Saw Such a Girl (1919)
• The Man from Funeral Range (1919)
• When a Girl Loves (1919)
• Greased Lightning (1919)
• The Virtuous Thief (1919)
• The Trembling Hour (1919)
• Over the Garden Wall (1919)
• The Family Honor (1920)
• The Dancin' Fool (1920)
• The Jack-Knife Man (1920)
• Homespun Folks (1920)
• The Little Grey Mouse (1920)
• The Beautiful Gambler (1921)
• Chickens (1921)
• Travelin' On (1922)
• Man Under Cover (1922)
• Truxton King (1923)
• Which Shall It Be? (1924)
• His Forgotten Wife (1924)
• The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)
• The Shadow on the Wall (1925)
• Private Affairs (1925)
• The Unknown Soldier (1926)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)

External links[]

• Willis Marks at IMDb
• A guide to the Willis Marks Papers, 1841-1926 at Digital.library.du.edu

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